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NTT’s Growth Strategy from

the perspective of CTO

Copyright 2020 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

This document is a translation of the Japanese original. The Japanese original is authoritative.

The forward-looking statements and projected figures concerning the future performance of NTT and its

subsidiaries and affiliates contained or referred to herein are based on a series of assumptions, projections,

estimates, judgments and beliefs of the management of NTT in light of information currently available to it

regarding NTT and its subsidiaries and affiliates, the economy and telecommunications industry in Japan

and overseas, and other factors. These projections and estimates may be affected by the future business

operations of NTT and its subsidiaries and affiliates, the state of the economy in Japan and abroad,

possible fluctuations in the securities markets, the pricing of services, the effects of competition, the

performance of new products, services and new businesses, changes to laws and regulations affecting the

telecommunications industry in Japan and elsewhere, other changes in circumstances that could cause

actual results to differ materially from the forecasts contained or referred to herein, as well as other risks

included in NTT’s most recent Annual Securities Report and in any other materials publicly disclosed by

NTT on its website.

* “E” in this material represents that the figure is a plan or projection for operation.

** “FY” in this material indicates the fiscal year ending March 31 of the succeeding year.

*** “1Q” in this material represents the three-month period beginning on April 1 and ending on June

30, “2Q” represents the six-month period beginning on April 1 and ending on September 30,

“3Q” represents the nine-month period beginning on April 1 and ending on December 31,

and ”4Q” represents the twelve-month period beginning on April 1 and ending on March 31.

1Copyright 2020 NTT CORPORATION

Toward NTT’s medium-term growth and development

Desired direction

(1)

Development and

provision of new

services based on a

“remote world”

(3)

Worldwide promotion

of research and

development

(4)

Strengthening of new

business activities,

such as smart-life

operations

(2)

Concentration of

resources and

promotion of digital

transformation


Contribution to society through business initiatives

Develop and promote information and telecommunication devices, software, and services that can be used worldwide

Contribute to global information and telecommunication standards

Further advance information and telecommunication technology in new fields such as outer space and underwater

Improve business continuity, increase the resilience of information and telecommunication systems against disasters, and strengthen cybersecurity

Provide services that are easier to use and lower in price

Spread and promote digitization and smartification

Revitalize local communities and economies

Strengthening global industrial competitiveness

Solving social challenges

Realizing safe and secure telecommunication infrastructure

Further developing the information and telecommunication industry and realizing services that satisfy customers

Global competitiveness Social challenges

Safety and security Customer satisfaction


Mobile core

network

(1) Development and provision of new services based on a “remote world”

Existing model Open model

Core

network

RANVertical

integration

RU

DU

CU

Software

RU

Software

Not compatible

among manufacturers

IP

network /

PSTN

Op

tical

Meta

l

Dedicated device

Integration

(softwarization)

RU: Radio Unit DU: Distributed Unit CU: Central Unit


Existing model Open model

Core

network

RAN

垂直統合

RU

DU

CUソフトウェア

RU

ソフトウェアEPC

Not compatible

among manufacturers

Op

tical

Wire

less

General-purpose hardware (white box)

General-purpose software

(independent of hardware)

Multiple vendors (open IF)

Dedicated hardware

Dedicated software

Single vendor

Flexible and advanced operations

Diversified services

(1) Development and provision of new services based on a “remote world”


Open access networks (O-RAN plus vRAN)

RURU

RU

DU

CU

RURU

RU

vDU

vCU

Op

era

tiona

l m

an

agem

ent

Op

era

tiona

l m

an

agem

ent

RURU

RU

vDU

vCU

Op

era

tiona

l m

an

agem

ent

NEC NTT

- Software technology

- Production technology

- Verification for practical

use

“OSS/BSS advancement”

- LSI development

Partnership

- Reaching a wide range of customers

- Providing proposal, installation support, and

maintenance and operation services

Virtualization

Flexible and

advanced

operations



Open

networks

vRAN

O-RAN

High availability

Scalability

Resilience


Fixed-line network

Mobile network

White box

Voice(mobile)

Integration of mobile and fixed-line technologies for core networks (new foundations of services)

Voice

(fixed-line)

Transfer

processing Video

Authentication and billing

Security XRDevice

management

New virtual services in the 5G/6G era Remote world

Contents

Internet access

(IP network, PSTN)

Other business operators

Softwarization

Integration of

mobile and

fixed-line

technologies

Smart world




Road to

IOWN

(3) Worldwide promotion of research and development

- Expanding wireless coverage

and increasing capacity

- 6G strategy

(1) Wireless

- LSI serving as a key

to the APN

(2) All-Photonics

Network (APN)

- 4D digital platform™

- Digital twin devices

(3) Digital Twin

Computing (DTC)

Cognitive

Foundation(4) Disaggregated

Computing / OS


(1) WirelessExpanding wireless coverage and increasing capacity

Expansion




(1) Wireless 6G strategy

5G

Extreme high

data rate/capacity

Extreme coverage

Extreme low

energy & cost

Extreme low

latency

Extreme high

reliability

Extreme massive

connectivity

6G

Sky, sea, space

10 million devices per square kilometer

99.99999%

<1ms>100Gbps

Devices with extremely low power consumption (which require no battery charging)




(2) All-Photonics Network (APN)

Smart

Mobility

・・・

Wavelength 1

Wavelength 3Wavelength 4

Wavelength n

Smart

City

Smart

Healthcare

Smart

Factory

Smart

Agri

Smart

Sports

IP network PSTN

Wavelength 2

Wavelength 6

Wavelength 5

Low latency,

high bandwidth

Multi-connectivity,low bandwidth


Safety and security Customer satisfactionSpread and promotion of

digitization and smartification

Revitalization of local

communities and economies

Wavelength 7


Optical layer

Optical transmission:400Gbits/sec

Intra-chip inter-core optical transmission

Intra-chip optical signal processing

Inter-chip optical transmission

Chip peripheral connections

Photonics-electronics convergence devicesTransmission based on optical technology

Electrical layer

COSA

Expansion of information-processing capacity

Limitation or

reduction of

power

consumption

Low-latency

transmission

platform

1. Target power efficiency for the photonics part

2. Target communication capacity per fiber

3. Target delay for uncompressed video traffic within the same prefecture in Japan

(1) Low power consumption

(3) Low latency

- Transmission systemsLight (wavelengths) throughout

- Information processing platformPhotonics-electronics convergence devices

- No data compression

- No queueing

100 times higher1

Power efficiency

1/200 3

End-to-end delay

Response

to

increasing

data traffic

(2) High quality,

large capacity

- Assignment of a wavelength to each service

- Not dependent on IP addressing

125 times higher2

Transmission capacity

(2) Self-manufacture of LSIs that serve as a key to

the APN Global competitiveness Social challenges



(3) Digital Twin Computing

Scale of digital twins

Future city designNew urban development based on people’s social activities and medium- and long-term forecasts of variations of 4D information

Optimal control of people

flow and traffic flowControl of people flow, traffic flow, etc. through the use of 4D information for time and space

Energy forecast for citiesReal-time demand forecast for energy infrastructure (electricity, gas, water, etc.) and efficient energy use

Global-scale digital

replicationForecasting of large-scale natural disasters and creation of countermeasures by digitizing thegeographical features of the earth’s surface, climate change, and other data

Decision-making supportUse of various future visions and possibilities for decision-making

Smartification of

infrastructure and industryDigital transformation (smart infrastructure, smart factory, smart agriculture, etc.)

Capability expansionStrengthening of intellectual operations and skills and collaboration with digital twin computing (which can achieve self-sustaining growth)

Medical care and healthIndividualized and forecast-based medical care and behavior modification through biological sensing and lifestyle analysis

Deeper Broaderperson group citytown nation globe space

4D digital platform™

Use of digital twin devices




(3) DTC 4D digital platform™

Advanced geographical space information

Database

Base location point

Data integrationMobile Mapping SystemAerial photo

High-precision 3D space information

Existing map data

Sensing data

Semantic information (road, house, etc.)

Environmentsensor

Mobile object sensor

Optimal control of people flow and traffic flow

Future city design

Smartification of infrastructure and industry

4D digital platform™

Integration of sensing data

on a real-time basis based

on highly accurate location

and time information

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Tim

e

Past

Future

High-precision location navigation

Wide variety of data

(Connection with different types of data sources)




(3) DTC Digital twin device (in the case of medical ICT)

Remote palpation and auscultation

Remote AI diagnosisRemote healthcare service

Constant monitoring

Telesurgery

Implant

Vital data deviceBlood sensor

Quick abnormality

detection and treatment

(real-time medical care)

Wearable electrocardiogram

AI tethoscope

Medical ICT platformIn-situ treatment

through the use of in-

the-body devices



Medical treatment optimized

for individual patients

Remote

medical care

Core body temperature

sensor


(4) Disaggregated Computing / OS development

Smart

Mobility

Smart

City

Smart

Healthcare

Smart

Factory

Smart

Agri

Smart

Sports



Driving digital society

High-speed data

transfer based on

optical connection

High-speed processing through the use of processors based on integration of photonics and electronics

Optimal integration of data transfer and processing based on OSInformation

processing

Optical transmission

Server

IP network

OS

APNOS


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